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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Outer Limits Sprawling Atlanta seeks new routes to the future	Robert DiGiacomo	14 May 2008	Grist Feature

Topics: Georgia, green building, placemaking, Smartish Cities, special series, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

Coke: 'it' with the foodies? Yes, according to a new 'artisanal' restaurant in Atlanta	Tom Philpott	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: advertising, business, food, Georgia, health, insanity, messaging (all these topics)

Water wars!	David Roberts	24 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Georgia, severe weather, Tennessee, water conflicts, water crisis (all these topics)

Georgia Breach Georgia governor eases water-use restrictions		08 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:21 PM on 08 Feb 2008 Despite an ongoing drought, and despite a recent court ruling that removes Atlanta's right to much of a heavily relied-upon water source, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is lifting a near-total ban on garden watering and swimming-pool filling in the state. "Swim, kids, swim," said Perdue, who didn't announce a start date for the eased restrictions. City and county governments, which are mandated by ...
Topics: Georgia, local politics, news, politics, state politics, water conflicts, water crisis (all these topics)

Give and Lake Fast-growing Atlanta loses rights to major source of drinking water		06 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:27 PM on 06 Feb 2008 An 18-year water war between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida has come to an end of sorts: A federal appellate court has voided an Army Corps of Engineers agreement that would have given Georgia the rights to nearly 25 percent of federal reservoir Lake Lanier as a source of drinking water for metro Atlanta. Alabama and Florida had sued over the plan, saying it would siphon off water t ...
Topics: Alabama, Army Corps of Engineers, Florida, Georgia, news, placemaking, urban planning, water conflicts (all these topics)

Transitions Soviet-induced water crises push Eastern European nations to consider solutions	Grist	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Armenia, Georgia, international politics, politics, water crisis, water pollution (all these topics)

How's My Drying? Call 1-800-F-U-Species Georgia declares state of emergency due to drought, anger at species protections		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 8:51 AM on 22 Oct 2007 Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) declared a state of emergency in 85 of the state's 159 counties due at least in part to anger at endangered-species protections for critters downstream that the governor says take up too much water. The governor asked President Bush to issue a federal disaster declaration that would provide low-interest loans to h ...
Topics: endangered species, Georgia, news, water crisis (all these topics)

They're High, and Dry Georgia lawmakers propose suspending endangered-species protections during drought		17 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:31 PM on 17 Oct 2007 Lawmakers in Georgia have introduced a bill in the U.S. Congress to suspend Endangered Species Act protections in times of extreme drought, arguing it would help average folks and businesses cope with the serious water woes now plaguing parts of the U.S. Southeast. Georgia's congressional delegation rallied around the proposal, calling it a "common sense ...
Topics: endangered species, Georgia, news, politics, United States, water crisis (all these topics)

Alternative information GA state legislature tries to figure out whether climate change is real	David Roberts	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Georgia, politics (all these topics)

Southern vacation A few random observations before getting back to work	David Roberts	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Georgia, green living, placemaking, Prius, Tennessee, travel (all these topics)

ATLien Invasion Will an Atlanta parks and redevelopment project benefit low-income residents?	Na'Taki Osborne	28 Mar 2006	Soapbox
Atlanta, Ga.: the famous "Hot-lanta" of Southern heat and hospitality, home of "down-home" fried chicken and a growing black middle class, cradle of the largest historically black college community in the world, hotbed of the civil-rights movement, and ... the sprawl capital of the South. As Atlanta gets greener, who will benefit? Photo: iStockphoto. As ...
Topics: environmental justice, Georgia, green space, placemaking, politics, Poverty and the Environment, sprawl (all these topics)

Georgia on Her Mind Manana Kochladze strives to protect Georgia from a BP oil pipeline	Michelle Nijhuis	23 Apr 2004	Main Dish
The Republic of Georgia, which gained its independence after the breakup of the Soviet Union, may be best known to Westerners as the birthplace of Josef Stalin. But this new democracy, bordered by the formidable Caucasus mountains, is also known for its alpine forests, stunning mountain gorges, and clear-running mineral springs. Kochladze. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. Man ...
Topics: energy, Georgia, interview, land stewardship, oil (all these topics)

The Sludge Retort		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
The Sludge Retort Microbiologist and former U.S. EPA employee David Lewis testified to Congress yesterday that the agency had knowingly used unreliable data when denying a petition to stop the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer. The petition, from 73 labor, environmental, and farm groups, was denied last December based on data from two Georgia dairy farms that Georgia officials had already rejec ...
Topics: Georgia, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Oil Hits the Fan Oil Pipeline Through Georgian Republic Runs Into Trouble		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Oil Hits the Fan Oil Pipeline Through Georgian Republic Runs Into Trouble A $3 billion, 1,000-mile pipeline -- slated to be pumping oil from the newly opened Caspian oilfields through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey to the world market by April 2005 -- has run into a whole mess of trouble. Environmenta ...
Topics: Azerbaijan, business, energy, food and agriculture, Georgia, globalization, mining and drilling, population, renewable energy, Turkey, wildlife (all these topics)

Air Bawl States Tighten Air Rules in the Wake of Federal Loosening		17 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Air Bawl States Tighten Air Rules in the Wake of Federal Loosening A number of states and cities are thumbing their noses at the Bush administration's moves to weaken air-pollution rules by imposing their own stricter regulations. Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and other states, as well as a few cities, announced yesterday that they are making or ...
Topics: air pollution, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, politics, pollution and waste, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Park and Writhe		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Park and Writhe The National Parks Conservation Association has released its annual list of endangered parks -- and, sadly, it includes some of the most treasured wild areas in the U.S.: Yellowstone, Denali, and the Great Smoky Mountains, among others. The unlucky parks made the list because they ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Florida, Georgia, Montana, National Park Service, national parks, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

That's Sprawl, Folks		18 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
That's Sprawl, Folks Communities in California, Georgia, and North Carolina are the worst offenders when it comes to suburban sprawl in the United States, according to a three-year study released yesterday by the Washington, D.C.-based coalition Smart Growth America. The study, based on the work of researchers at Rutgers University and Cornell University, measur ...
Topics: California, environmental non-government organizations, Georgia, North Carolina, placemaking (all these topics)

White Trash Turns Green		14 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Alabama, education, Florida, Georgia, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Emmy Award		17 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Georgia, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

That'll Do, Babe Kris Williams is saving sea turtles in Georgia	Gail Krueger	01 Dec 2000	Main Dish
Kris Williams is the "Turtle Babe" of Wassaw Island. At 33, the attractive, square-jawed blonde heads the oldest volunteer-based sea turtle conservation project in North America. What a babe. Optimism comes as naturally to Williams as the tide comes to the beach. It has to, because sea turtle conservation in Georgia isn't easy. "Awareness is higher than it's ever been and that gives me ...
Topics: fishing, Georgia, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Finders, Keepers This Georgia riverkeeper has a red neck and a green heart	Gail Krueger	27 Jul 2000	Main Dish
James Holland was a crabber for more than 30 years. Now he's the president and full-time field director of the Altamaha Riverkeeper, an activist group he founded to clean up Georgia's biggest river basin. James Holland -- he doesn't wear fleece. The rough-hewn Holland -- with his missing front teeth, ninth-grade education, and fierce determination -- embodies the new environmental movement in t ...
Topics: Georgia, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

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